CRD 05-08
Table 2. Summary of the confirmed
human-caused mortality and serious injury (>SI=) events involving
baleen whales along the Gulf of Mexico coast, U.S. East coast and adjacent
Canadian Maritimes, 1999 - 2003, with number of events attributed to
entanglements or vessel collisions by year. |
Stock |
Mean
annual mortality and SI rate (and PBR) |
Entanglements |
Vessel
Collisions |
Annual rate (US
waters / Canadian waters / other waters) |
Confirmed
mortalities (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003) |
Confirmed
SI’s (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003) |
Annual rate (US
waters / Canadian waters) |
Confirmed
mortalities (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003) |
Confirmed
SI’s |
| North Atlantic right whale |
2.6
(0) |
1.6
(1.0 / 0.6 / 0) |
3
(1, 0, 1, 1,0) |
5
(0, 1, 1, 2, 1) |
1.0
(0.8 / 0.2) |
5
(1, 0, 2, 1, 1) |
0 |
| Gulf of Maine humpback
whale1 |
3.822
(1.3) |
2.8
(2.0 / 0.6 / 0) |
5
(1, 0, 1, 2, 1) |
9
(2, 3, 0, 1, 3) |
0.6
(0.6 / 0) |
3
(0, 0, 2, 1, 0) |
0 |
| Western North Atlantic fin whale3 |
1.4
(4.7) |
0.4
(0.2 / 0 / 0.2) |
2
(0, 0, 1, 1, 0) |
0 |
1.0
(1.0 / 0) |
5
(2, 1, 2, 0, 0) |
0 |
| Nova Scotian sei whale4 |
0.4
(–) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.4
(0.4 / 0) |
2
(0, 0, 1, 0,1) |
0 |
| Western North Atlantic blue whale5 |
0
(–) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Canadian East Coast minke whale |
3.26
(3.1) |
3.26
(3.2 / 0
/ 0) |
15
(5, 1, 2, 2, 5) |
13
(0, 1, 02,
0, 0) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Western North Atlantic Brydes whale |
0.2
(0.3) |
0.2
(0.2 / 0 / 0) |
1
(0, 0, 0, 0, 1) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 Includes only events involving confirmed members
of the Gulf of Maine feeding stock.
2 Includes a mother and
calf taken by the Bequian hunt in 1999 (an addition of 0.4 per year for
the period).
3 Includes an entanglement mortality found off
Bermuda in 2001.
4, 5Stock abundance estimates outdated; no
PBR established for these stocks. |
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